Oops. Of course I hadn't followed the thread where Tomas Pospisek (the original submitter) responded, having tried gpm:
> 1) Starting into text mode, even with gpm running doesn't show any such > problem. How come? The mechanism regarding the HW is the same as under > X or isn't it? > 2) If what P.R. Patil mantions happens and you log into the machine > through ssh you can do a chvt to a console and the keyboard is there. > How come? Does switching from X to console do a ioctl? > > *t So the situation hasn't been explained well enough yet. Frank
